Saber + Zenkaiger: Super Hero Senki
A crossover film honoring two tokusatsu franchises.
Saber + Zenkaiger: Super Hero Senki is a 2021 Japanese superhero crossover film between the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai franchises. It was released on July 22, 2021, in a double billing with a special film for the then-upcoming Kamen Rider Revice. The film pays tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Kamen Rider franchise and the 45th anniversary of the Super Sentai franchise while also paying homage to the original creator of both, Shotaro Ishinomori.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Ryuta Tasaki
- Producer
- Shinichiro Shirakura
- Screenplay
- Nobuhiro Mouri, Junko Kōmura (Zenkaiger Plot Supervision)
- Story
- Nobuhiro Mouri
- Junko Kōmura
- Takuro Fukuda
- Based on
- Kamen Rider, Shotaro Ishinomori
- Starring
- Shuichiro Naito
- Kiita Komagine
- Fuku Suzuki
- Ayumi Tanida
- Music
- Chumei Watanabe
- Kenichiro Oishi
- Kousuke Yamashita
- Studio
- Toei Company
- TV Asahi
- Toei Animation
- Toei Video
- ja
- 東映ビデオ
- ADK Emotions
- Toei Advertising
- ja
- 東映エージエンシー
- Bandai
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Plot
The guardian Asmodeus turns against the Sword of Logos at their Agastya Base space station, seizing every book that holds the stories of Kamen Riders and Super Sentai and fusing them into a single narrative. Touma Kamiyama, Mei Sudo, and Yuri find themselves pulled into the world of Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger, while the Zenkaigers—except Juran—are sent into the world of Kamen Rider Saber. While searching for his missing teammates, Juran meets Touma’s group. They help him fend off an attack from Tozitend and come across a young boy named Shotaro. Back at the Zenkaigers’ headquarters, they use Secchan to reach Kaito Goshikida’s group and learn the truth from Sophia. Asmodeus then uses his power to throw Kaito and Rintaro Shindo into a world inspired by Journey to the West, while Touma, Juran, Mei, and Shotaro land in one based on Nansō Satomi Hakkenden. With aid from various Riders and Sentai warriors they encounter along the way, both teams finish their respective tales and reunite to face Asmodeus. He persuades Shotaro that the Riders and Sentai cause only suffering and should not exist. Shotaro destroys his drawings, making the heroes vanish. As he fades, Touma realizes he and his friends are also part of a story, not the real world. He then awakens in a peaceful life where no battles ever happened. Understanding that hardship makes heroes human, and that Shotaro is actually a young, time-displaced Shotaro Ishinomori—the creator of these heroes—Touma finds him and convinces him to bring heroes back. Together, they craft a new story: Super Hero Senki.
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